What's the difference between behead and decapitate?
Behead
Definition:
(v. t.) To sever the head from; to take off the head of.
Example Sentences:
(1) And it is getting worse every day.” He shows a gruesome image from his Facebook page on his phone showing a Kurdish fighter being beheaded by Isis jihadis.
(2) The beheading of British aid worker David Haines on 13 September and the start of US-led bombardment of Isis positions in Syria on 23 September were followed by large anti- then pro-Isis reactions.
(3) He said Kashmiri wanted newspaper staff beheaded and the heads thrown from the building to send a message to the Danish authorities.
(4) They beheaded him with an axe and cut him into pieces," said Moomin Abdallah Ahmed, a Muslim trader in the Lakouanga suburb.
(5) The blackout remained in place until Kassig appeared in a video released last week, which showed the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning .
(6) But perhaps their most provocative piece of electioneering was an A6 election card with a photo of Muslim extremists holding up a placard reading: "Behead those who insult Islam".
(7) The kidnap and beheading of Croatian national Tomislav Salopek by the Islamic State affiliate Sinai Province in August 2015 was seen as an unusual instance of kidnap of a foreign national in Egypt.
(8) It’s been very interesting, with this second beheading, how very little of those images have been passed around,” said Family Online Safety Institute CEO Stephen Balkam, who serves on Facebook’s safety advisory board.
(9) While the beheading of hostages from the US, Britain and Japan drew condemnation from most religious sects within Islam , the gruesome images of the airman’s murder served as a unifying battlecry for Muslims across the world.
(10) But with prime minister Shinzo Abe stating that the chilling recording, purportedly released by Isis on Saturday, is genuine, the beheading of Haruna Yukawa marks a violent end to a troubled life.
(11) Its sheiks and warlords, the fawned-upon princes who once did as they wished – buying up most of Streatham in the morning, beheading someone for sorcery in the afternoon – well, they’re dust and shadow now.
(12) Egypt has called for UN-backed international intervention in Libya after launching air strikes on Islamic State (Isis) targets following the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians.
(13) Ruddock told the ABC’s Q&A program that an informant who witnessed a beheading in Syria would be unlikely to be able to come to Australia to give evidence in court.
(14) The government of Japan is in contact with the US government about the details.” Emwazi is believed to have beheaded two Japanese hostages, journalist Kenji Goto and security consultant Haruna Yukawa , earlier this year.
(15) Reprieve claims two Pakistani men convicted in the Saudi courts are due to be beheaded very soon.
(16) Earlier reports said the group were beheaded because they had attended a party that insurgents considered immoral.
(17) Abu Haleema had contact with a teenage jihadi who wanted to carry out a beheading on Anzac Day in Australia.
(18) Three were later beheaded, while a fourth was believed to have been killed in a Jordanian air strike.
(19) Last month, Egypt’s branch of the Islamic State group beheaded a Croatian oil worker who was abducted near Cairo, at the edge of the Western Desert.
(20) The cow was beheaded on the 54th day after abortion.
Decapitate
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut off the head of; to behead.
(v. t.) To remove summarily from office.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, decapitation did not eliminate the sex difference in the tissue content of P4 during control incubations.
(2) To understand the control mechanisms involved in the regulation of fetal glycogen, we have studied the effect of in utero fetal decapitations on glycogen metabolism in rabbit fetal heart, lung, and liver.
(3) After 21 days of gestation the morphine-dependent dams were decapitated and the foetal brains were dissected.
(4) Circulation was terminated by decapitation at 15s following injection.
(5) Rats were decapitated and the dissection begun either immediately ("0 min" samples) or 10 min later (10 min samples).
(6) When animals are decapitated a new head regenerates.
(7) The time course of hormonal peaks in decapitated females resembles that in starved females during the first post-ecdysial week, suggesting that some as yet unknown regulating mechanism of ECD production lies outside the head.
(8) At the end of the last stress period animals were decapitated and trunk blood was collected.
(9) After different time intervals the last infusion period to the EEG-criterion was followed by decapitation and samples from blood, brain, muscle and fat were analysed for hexobarbital content.
(10) An activation of phosphorylase which was not accompanied by a stable change in the activity of phosphorylase kinase was observed in hepatocytes incubated with phenylephrine, isoproterenol or vasopressin as well as on decapitation of unanesthetized animals.
(11) This same blunted response was not seen in chronic stress even if the animals are stressed immediately before decapitation.
(12) CC extracts and JHA were administered to decapitated females to determine their regulative effects on fat body protein synthesis.
(13) From a comparison of activation by strychnine and picrotoxin in normal and chronically decapitated embryos it was deduced that a spinal and a supraspinal component participated in their effect.
(14) The experimental animals were administered intraperitoneally benzene 6 X every 24 h. The animals were decapitated 30 min.
(15) In addition, in three unoperated rats decapitated 24 hours after MK-801 treatment, 3H-TCP binding was reduced by 15-35%; similar bilateral suppression of 3H-TCP binding was detected in MK-801-treated ligates.
(16) The neurons were identified antidromically either by stimulation of the hindlimb area in the anterior lobe of the cerebellum (in thalamic cats) or by stimulation of the contralateral ventrolateral funiculus of the spinal cord (in decapitate cats).
(17) Animals were killed by decapitation, and the subfornical organ was quickly dissected out and incubated for 6 h in a medium containing [35S]methionine and [35S]cysteine.
(18) He was kicked out of a share house after threatening to decapitate a housemate.
(19) Thus, in low-flow states, the decapitation time may be lengthened to 12 s, whereas in high-flow states, the time must be 5 s to eliminate the possibility of backflux of tracer out of the brain.
(20) [3H]tyrosine was administered to rats 10 minutes before decapitation, and the rate of its incorporation into [3H]dopamine and [3H]norepinephrine was measured in whole brain.